enable vs prostrate

enable

verb
  • To affirm; to make firm and strong. 

  • To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for. 

  • To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like. 

  • To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior. 

  • To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device). 

  • To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse. 

  • To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to. 

prostrate

verb
  • To overcome or overpower. 

  • To throw oneself down in submission. 

  • To lie flat or face-down. 

  • To cause to lie down, to flatten. 

adj
  • Lying flat, face-down. 

  • Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease. 

  • Trailing on the ground; procumbent. 

  • Emotionally devastated. 

How often have the words enable and prostrate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )